Du Fu's Poetic Perfection

Author: Lu Guochen
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: This book selects 350 representative Du poems of various genres from The Complete Letters of Du Shaojing. As all the selected works are renowned masterpieces with strong popular appeal, referring to Luo Daqing's saying that "good poetry is like drinking mellow wine," the book is titled The Mellowness of Du Fu's Poetry and abbreviated as Du Chun. It is compiled for poetry enthusiasts with a college-level education or higher, teachers of Du Fu's poetry at various schools, and overseas Chinese and who love classical Chinese poetry.
For thousands of years, many scholars have studied and annotated Du Fu's works. This book often cites their achievements. In addition to Qiu Zhaocong's Detailed Annotations to Du Fu's Poetry, the main references include Guo Zhida's Collected Annotations to Du Fu's Poetry from Nine Schools, Qian Qianyi's Annotations to Du Fu's Poetry, Pu Qilong's Heart's Understanding of Du Fu's Poetry, Yang Lun's Mirror of Du Fu's Poetry, Wang Sishi's Du Yi, Shi Hongbao's Sayings on Reading Du Fu's Poetry, and Feng Zhi's Selected Poems of Du Fu, annotated by Pu Jiangqing and Wu Tianwu; Xiao Dефи's Selected Annotations to Du Fu's Poetry; Deng Guanying and Nie Shiqiao's Selected Collection of Du Fu's Poetry, and so on.